On the Sea: a romantic delirium
The director Helen Walsh has graduated from rapaciousness to tenderness
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Explore the world of cinema with our selection of film reviews, providing in-depth analysis, thoughtful critiques, and captivating insights into the latest releases and timeless classics.
The Odyssey is more Hollywood than Homeric
Christopher Nolan’s film is an epic return to old-fashioned studio excess
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Rosebush Pruning delights in its own bad taste
The family trait inherited by every member in the would-be satire is unredeemed nastiness
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Olivia Wilde’s near-perfect foursome
Seth Rogen is better than ever in dinner-party drama The Invite
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Jodie Foster is a force of nature in A Private Life
But this new crime mystery struggles with a personality disorder
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Does Virginia Woolf need updating?
The patriarchal world of Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day has been rewritten for our enlightened times
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Disclosure Day’s earnest hokum
Steven Spielberg’s return to extraterrestrials is as brilliantly filmed as anything he has made
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The British aristocracy has never been so wretched
Savage House is a perfect satire of upper-class social climbers, fraudsters and wannabes
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Backrooms: How 4chan “creepypasta” became Hollywood horror
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in an unforgettable exploration of soulless cityscapes
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Eagles of the Republic is an audacious exposé of the Egyptian state
Tarik Saleh’s film depicts a much-loved Egyptian actor drawn into the deadly world of the El-Sisi regime
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Ian McKellen thrills in The Christophers
The actor’s performance as a jaded painter is among his career-best
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When Steven Spielberg predicted AI
Steven Spielberg’s AI has been re-released 25 years on – and it offers a surprising perspective on today’s dystopian fears
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 is pure guilty pleasure
Twenty years since the original film, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway are back, facing off in a changed fashion world
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Rose of Nevada: a hypnotic Cornish Back to the Future
Mark Jenkin’s new film is beautifully made. But does it make any deeper sense?
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The Wizard of the Kremlin has no magic
This earnest adaptation of a bestselling book on the rise of Putin has too much hectoring and not enough drama
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Albert Camus, estranged
François Ozon subtly updates The Stranger and its author’s attitudes to French colonialism
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Jim Jarmusch and the parental pleasure principle
In Father Mother Sister Brother, the director turns the incomprehension between family members into a film of pure pleasure
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La Grazia is Paolo Sorrentino’s best film in years
The lauded Italian director’s latest film poignantly explores the ethical dilemmas of power
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The perils of adapting Kazuo Ishiguro
A new adaptation of the Nobel-winning writer’s first novel is too faithful to the book – and to its flaws
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Sound of Falling is an intricate ghost story about trauma across time
In this extraordinary film, four girls confront death through the decades
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